News — Star Wars

I made a character in a Star Wars RPG once, way back in the late 1980s, but I’ve never actually played any version of the game. Still, having been raised on Star Wars during the 1970s, it’s easy to say that I’ve got a certain love affair with it.This always gets further enforced when I see great Star Wars art, and so I was sure to be roped into Fantasy Flight’s RPG release of Star Wars Edge of the Empire because of that fact. I finally broke down and bought a copy of the core book for my birthday...

In the mid-90s I was working as a manager of a B. Dalton Bookseller down in Bradenton Florida.  How exactly I got there is really beyond me, save to say it had something to do with the no-mans-land that is post college graduation. Whatever the case, I did have the opportunity to use my 20% employee discount on several gaming products that came across the shelves of my miserably failing mall store.  One of these was the Star Wars supplement Platt’s Starport Guide by West End Games. Now I’ve never played the Star Wars RPG in any form, although I...